Monday, May 24, 2010

MinneBar "Data Mining: what is it good for?" notes

Dan led a session at MinneBar called "Data Mining: what is it good for?". It was "un": there was no planned agenda. We talked about whatever the crowd was interested in.

It was surprisingly popular, so I typed up notes from what remained on the board at the end. I expanded and linkified. This is useful as a reference if you were there.

We talked about terms, tools and techniques, and further resources (reading, interest groups, public datasets).

Our two main areas of discussion were finding patterns, and visualization of those patterns. I have not separated those out below.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Computers detecting sarcasm? Please!

A colleague sent me a link to a paper on detecting sarcasm in Amazon product reviews. (See also popsci or slashdot.)